How to clean your toilet fast and effectively
A clean, smell-free toilet is an asset every house should have. Regular cleaning and maintenance is the key to achieve this. With the use of toilet bowl cleaners and deodorizers, you are on your way to a clean and odor-free toilet. General cleaning of toilet should be done once or twice a week to prevent it from being grimy.
Here are some tips in cleaning your toilet fast and effectively:
- Be safe. Always wear rubber gloves while cleaning and using toilet cleaners. If you are using string chemical toilet cleaners, wear mask.
- Be familiar with the toilet cleaners you are using. Read the labels and instruction of the toilet cleaners on how it should be use. Remember to be careful in mixing bleach with toilet cleansers as this may result to the release of toxic gases. It is important to learn the exact chemical makeup of your toilet cleansers.
- Laundry bleach can help in removing rust stain under a toilet-bowl rim. For stubborn stains, you can use extra-fine steel wool or sandpapers.
- In cleaning bath tub and sink, do not use chemical toilet cleaners as it may ruin the finish. Instead, use a regular cleaning soaps.
- It is also important that you have a long-handle brush that will make cleaning toilet bowl a lot easier.
- If you have waste basket inside your toilet, be sure to regularly dispose trash and disinfect it.
- For overnight cleaning, you can put 1/4 cup of borax or 2 tablets of denture cleansers in the toilet bowl, leave it overnight and scrub the stains away in the morning.
All is done. But wait! Don’t forget to clip the dispenser of your The Drops toilet dispenser to the rim of your toilet bowl before moving to your next cleaning area.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Thank you for these very useful cleaning tips.
December 28th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I think what you pointed out about knowing what is in your toilet cleaner is very important also I think I will give the denture cleaner a go as it sounds like a good idea.